Born in Longmont, Colorado, May 9, 1931. His mother Mrs.
Donna M. Brand, resides in Longmont.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

Gray hair; gray eyes; 5 feet 11 inches; 182 pounds.

EDUCATION:

Graduated from Longmont High School, Longmont, Colorado; received a
bachelor of science degree in Business from the University of Colorado in 1953,
a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of
Colorado in 1960, and a master's degree in Business Administration from the
University of California at Los Angeles in 1964.

Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and American Astronautical Society.
Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. Member, Sigma Nu and Beta Gamma
Sigma.

"Military". Commissioned officer and naval aviator with the U.S.
Marine Corps from 1953 to 1957. Military assignments included a 15-month tour

in Japan as a jet fighter pilot. Following release from active duty, Brand
continued in Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard jet fighter squadrons
until 1964.

"Civilian". Employed as a civilian by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from
1960 to 1966, he worked initially as a flight test engineer on the Navy's P3A
aircraft. In 1963, Brand graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and
was assigned to Palmdale, California, as an experimental test pilot on Canadian
and German F-104 programs. Prior to selection to the astronaut program, Brand
worked at the West German F-104G Flight Test Center at Istres, France, as an
experimental test pilot and leader of a Lockheed flight test advisory group.

"Flight Experience": 9,669 flying hours, which includes 8,089 hours in jets,
391 hours in helicopters, 746 hours in spacecraft, and checkout in more than 30
types of military aircraft.

NASA EXPERIENCE:

One of the 19 pilot astronauts selected by NASA in April
1966, Brand's early experience included being a crew member in the thermal
vacuum chamber testing of the prototype command module and support crewman on
Apollo 8 and 13. He was backup command module pilot for Apollo 15 and backup
commander for Skylabs 3 and 4. Later he flew on four missions; Apollo-Soyuz,
STS-5, STS-41B, and STS-35.

"Apollo-Soyuz": Brand was launched on his first space flight on July 15, 1975,
as Apollo command module pilot on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
mission. This flight resulted in the historic meeting in space between
American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts. Other crewmen on this 9-day
Earth-orbital mission were Thomas Stafford, Apollo commander; Donald Slayton,
Apollo docking module pilot; cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, Soyuz commander; and
cosmonaut Valeriy Kubasov, Soyuz flight engineer. The Soyuz spacecraft was
launched at Baikonur in Central Asia, and the Apollo was launched 7-1/2 hours
later at the Kennedy Space Center. Two days later the Apollo accomplished a
successful rendezvous and docking with Soyuz. The linkup tested a unique, new
docking system and demonstrated international cooperation in space. There were
44 hours of docked joint activities which included 4 crew transfers between the
Apollo and the Soyuz. Twenty-eight experiments were performed during the
flight. Six records for docked and group flight were set on the mission and
are recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. Apollo splashed
down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, on July 25, less than a mile from the
targeted splash point, and was promptly recovered by the USS NEW ORLEANS.
Mission duration was 217 hours.

STS-5: Brand was commander of STS-5, the first fully operational flight of the
Shuttle Transportation System, which launched Columbia on November 11, 1982.
His crew comprised Colonel Robert Overmyer, pilot, and two mission specialists,
Dr. Joseph Allen and Dr. William Lenoir. STS-5, the first mission with a four
man crew, demonstrated the Shuttle as operational by the successful first
deployment of two commercial communications satellites from the Orbiter's
payload bay. The mission marked the Shuttle's first use of an upper stage
rocket, the Payload Assist Module (PAM-D). The satellites were deployed for
Satellite Business Systems Corporation of McLean, Virginia, and TELESAT of
Ottawa, Canada. Two FAI records for mass to altitude were set on the mission.
Numerous flight tests were performed to ascertain Shuttle performance. STS-5
was the last flight to carry the Development Flight Instrumentation package to
support extensive flight testing. A Getaway Special, three student projects
and medical experiments were included on the mission. The STS-5 crew
successfully concluded the 5-day orbital flight of Columbia with the landing
approach through a cloud deck to Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base,
California on November 16, 1982. Mission duration was 122 hours.

STS 41-B: Brand commanded Challenger with a crew of five on the tenth flight
of the Space Shuttle. The launch was on February 3, 1984. His crew included
Commander Robert Gibson, pilot, and 3 mission specialists, Captain Bruce
McCandless II, Dr. Ronald McNair, and Lt. Col. Robert Stewart. The flight
accomplished the proper shuttle deployment of two Hughes 376 communications
satellites which failed to reach desired geosynchronous orbits due to upper
stage rocket failures. This mission marked the first flight checkout of the
Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), and the Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR), with
McCandless and Stewart performing two spectacular extravehicular activities
(EVA's). Shuttle rendezvous sensors and computer programs were flight tested
for the first time. In addition the German Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS),
Remote Manipulator System (RMS), 6 Getaway Specials, and materials processing
experiments were included on the mission. The 8-day flight of Challenger ended
with the first landing to the runway at the Kennedy Space Center on February
11, 1984. Mission duration was 191 hours.

STS-35: Brand again commanded Columbia on the thirty-eighth flight of the
Shuttle, this time with a crew of seven. The spectacular night launch on
December 2, 1990 started a 9-day mission devoted to round-the-clock
observations of stars and other celestial objects. Crewmen included the pilot,
Col. Guy Gardner; three mission specialists, Mike Lounge, Dr. Robert Parker and
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman; and two payload specialists, Dr. Samuel Durrance and Dr.
Ronald Parise. The 13-ton payload consisted of the 3 ASTRO-1 Ultraviolet (UV)
Telescopes and the Broad Band X-ray Telescope. More than 200 Orbiter maneuvers
were required to point the telescopes. Other activities included Orbiter
engineering flight tests, medical experiments, the Shuttle Amateur Radio
Experiment, and downlinked educational TV programs. This Shuttle flight, the
first dedicated to astronomy, provided a rich return of science data to better
understand the nature of the universe with emphasis on observation of very
active celestial objects. A night landing was made on December 10 to Runway 22
at Edwards Air Force Base. Mission duration was 215 hours.

With the completion of this flight Brand has logged 746 hours in space, and has
commanded three Shuttle missions.

CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:

Mr. Brand is currently Director of Plans for the National
Aerospace Plane (NASP) Program. In this role he is assigned out of NASA
Headquarters to the NASP joint Program Office at Wright-Patterston Air Force
Base, Dayton, Ohio.